Animal Man

Jeff Lemire’s Animal Man turns family horror into superhero tragedy. Buddy Baker’s connection to the Red stops being a neat power set and becomes a threat to his home, his body and everyone he loves. This omnibus is intimate, grotesque and emotional, a modern DC horror run where fatherhood hurts as much as the monsters.

The Animal Man Omnibus collects Grant Morrison's complete, career-launching run. Morrison reinvents B-list hero Buddy Baker — a stuntman and family man who draws powers from the "morphogenetic field" — as an animal-rights activist grappling with real ethical weight. The run grows famously metafictional, building to the moment Buddy literally meets his own writer. Blending superheroics with environmental and philosophical themes, it is one of the landmark works that helped seed the Vertigo imprint. Art by Chas Truog, covers by Brian Bolland.